Diets and weight-loss drugs are marketed with health halos. But the real drive to lose weight is the societal stigma around ...

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center has received a $263,813 Women's Health Supplement award from the National Institutes of Health to explore how obesity-induced changes in tissue ...

Adipotide, also referred to by its chemical designation FTPP (Fat-Targeted Proapoptotic Peptide), has emerged as a compound ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

The mammalian immune system is an evolutionary wonder. It's capable of recognizing and destroying cancer cells, and it can ...

BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) has become the most prevalent type of heart failure, but ...

Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic cell structures. In animal cells, vacuoles are generally ...

In this interview Prof. Dr. Kristina Kusche-Vihrog speaks about the nanomechanics of living cells and their implications for ...

Plant cells also contain large vacuoles and chloroplasts. Each organelle performs a specific function critical to the cell's survival (Table 1). Table 1. The structure and function of key eukaryotic ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Proteins in the sheath of cellular protrusions control how effectively cells can adhere to surfaces. Biological cells often ...